Bronwyn Riedel on the benefits of limewash paint, and growing a thriving global family business
Are you curious about limewash? Would you like to learn how it can help improve the health of your home, and add a beautiful patina to your walls? Come listen (and learn) to my conversation with Bronwyn Riedel of Bauwerk Colour. She shares not only the benefits of limewash but also how she has grown a thriving business based in Germany, selling her paints around the world with her husband Andreas.
The couple’s beautiful home, a manor house, features in my book STILL and we pick up our conversation from when we last met, and she shares her journey to creating a life doing what she loves.
THIS EPISODE FOCUSES ON
Bronwyn’s childhood & her creativity at a young age
Her journey to creating her business Bauwerk Colour
What lime wash is & how it differs from conventional paints
How & where you can use lime wash in your own home & applications tips
The health benefits of using lime wash
How Bronwyn creates the pigments & colours for Bauewerk Colour
Her experience of working with her husband Andreas
The biggest lessons she’s learnt about business
How she structures her days & weeks
Her experience moving to Germany
FEATURED ON THIS EPISODE
Find them on Instagram @bauwerkcolour
Bronwyn’s home in my book Still: The Slow Home
Colour range collaboration with Louise Gray of House of Grey
Book Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay.
Intrigued podcast
Podcast production: Yaga Media